ISBN: 0-88739-122-2
218 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Paperback Original
Price: $14.95
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Perceiving the Elephant
Frances Lief Neer
If you are reaching for your glasses to read this, you are a potential reader of Perceiving the Elephant. According to Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc., "80 million people suffer from potentially blinding eye diseases." Each person with changing sight is surrounded by friends and family who are also affected by this change. These essays speak to a variety of experiences in the sighted and blind worlds, with sections on medical perceptions, social service, education, and the heart and mind. An insider's and an outsider's view of sight loss, it addresses both professionals and the general public, and includes essays by blind as well as sighted people on coping with blindness.
Review: "[Neer's] upbeat, practical tone would prove a blessing for anyone dealing with sightlessness."
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Bio: Frances Lief Neer is the author of Dancing in the Dark, which has received many professional endorsements and is distributed by Creative Arts Book Company. She is a frequent lecturer and guest on television and radio talk shows, and leads a forum sponsored by the University of California, Department of Ophthalmology. Frances Neer has been blind since 1980.
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